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October 15, 2008 - CIT is proud to be a featured exhibitor at the 2008 UNC Charlotte college of computing and informatics Computer Security Symposium. The symposium offers I.T. personnel a unique and valuable opportunity to learn current-best practices and hear from industry leaders of new and emerging threats in several areas of computer and information security. CIT offers a robust computer security practice and is proud to be invided back to the annual UNC Charlotte computer security symposium.

CIT attains accrediation as IBM SystemX specialist

December 8, 2006 - Today, IBM Corporation recognized CIT's demonstrated technical ability to architect, implement, and support the new SystemX server platform. SystemX builds on the hugely popular xSeries and extends the developments of xSeries through new innovations in IBM X-Architecture technology® . This technology marries powerful innovation from IBM Research with 40 years of mainframe experience. The result is outstanding x86 server solutions for our clients. In addition to helping to improve energy management, IBM System x. and BladeCenter® servers help optimize performance, reliability and manageability for a potentially lower cost of ownership.

CIT Completes Major Addition to Network Simulation Lab

November 18, 2006 - Corporate Information Technologies (CIT) announced today that it has completed a major new addition to its LAN/WAN switching lab. A new fully enterprise-class LAN switching/routing environment has been added to the CIT lab. This addition gives us over 300 ports of 10/100/1000 ethernet and 16 ports of 10 Gigabit ethernet (10Gb-E). All ports are Layer2, 3, 4 aware and we now have the capability to provision in excess of 15,000 virtual remote locations for customer simulations. All locations can be built as a customized mixed-media WAN or a homogenous multi-zone LAN operating at speeds of 56kbps (DDS) to 45Mbps (DS3) to 10Gb-E (core LAN backbone). "This addition to our lab provides us unparalleled capabilities with regards to providing our customers the ability to evaluate the impact of new technologies, applications, or architectures to their current or proposed LAN and WAN environments" said Lawrence Cruciana, CIT's chief systems engineer. Some of the new equipment includes (2) Nortel Networks Passport 8600 series LAN switches (660Gpps!!!), Nortel Networks 5500 series stackable layer 3 switches, Alteon web load balancers, and high-throughput VPN termination systems.

Reservations of the LAN/WAN switching lab can be made by contacting CIT directly at 704.392.3031

CIT WBTV Premiere a Success

September 10, 2001 - CIT was featured on WBTV's 5:00 and 6:00 news program on Thursday, September 6 in seven separate interviews. Due to the exposure by WBTV about CIT offering free services to nonprofit organizations, we have been receiving many calls and applications from organizations in the area who are interested in applying.


Your favorite TV personalities make their debut on 09.06.2001!

CIT to be Featured on WBTV

September 6, 2001 - CIT will be featured on WBTV's 5:00 and 6:00 news program on Thursday, September 6 in five separate interviews. CIT has been asked to talk about the launching of the new Nonprofit Technology Assistance Program. During these shows, CIT's staff will be operating a call center for interested viewers to call in to get further details on the program. CIT will also provide a free dinner to the first person who can send in a recorded video of the interviews on WBTV.

Nonprofit Technology Assistance Program

August 27, 2001 - CIT will be working with several local nonprofit organizations over the next few months to provide for them free computer services and beneficial I. T. solutions. CIT will be taking applications from all interested nonprofits in the area to determine which projects will be developed further using CIT's resources.

Types of projects of special interest to CIT include computer training classes for low income families and at-risk youth, developing a web presence for the nonprofit organization, and implementing I.T.-based solutions that will reduce operational expenses for the organization or allow the organization to provide additional services to their clients.

Charlotte-area low income residents are at a huge competitive disadvantage without computer skills and easy access to the Internet. This disadvantage is commonly known as the 'digital divide'. To be on the less fortunate side of the divide means that there is less opportunity to take part in our new information-based economy, in which many more jobs will be related to computers. It also means that there is less opportunity to take part in the education, training, shopping, entertainment and communications opportunities that are available on line. Now that a large number of Americans regularly use the Internet to conduct daily activities, people who lack access to those tools are at a growing disadvantage.

Nonprofit organizations also suffer burdens that could be easily solved by the technology solutions available today. Developing computer networks, identifying areas where I.T. could lower operational expenses, improve productivity, and creating an online presence are all areas in which nonprofit organizations are lagging behind because they devote all possible funds to serving their clients.

Breaking the Digital Divide

Corporate Information Technologies has been working with Lakewood Community Development Corp. (LCDC), a non-profit organization, to help break the digital divide. Mecklenburg County Schools have recently mandated that students must pass a computer proficiency test before graduating from high school. However, some low income area schools do not have the funds to train students on these skills, and many of their students do not have a computer at home. Lakewood is attempting to help break this digital divide by building computer labs in low-income neighborhoods. One of these labs has been in operation for over a year now, and has been training a set of students on basic computer skills such as word processing, Internet usage, LAN Networking, and website creation. Some of CIT's employee's have contributed time and materials to making this lab successful.

In December 2000, Lakewood received a grant from Microsoft for software and new computers to improve the lab. CIT has agreed to provide facilities and equipment to Lakewood for them to build the new computers before they are transported to the lab.

If you are interested in donating new or used computer equipment to Lakewood, please contact CIT at 704.392.3031. They are currently in need of: color monitors, UPS's (power protection), newer computers (minimum PII) , educational software, and training materials.


Lakewood CDC students assembling and configuring the donated computers at CIT on 01.27.2001